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IELTS band score calculator: how they are calculated

IELTS Band Score Calculator: How they are calculated

What if you travel on and on but don’t know where to land? Leaders nowadays emphasize having a clear focus on the goal we are running after. This is important because it enhances the possibility of succeeding. Therefore, prior to sitting for the IELTS test, you need to target a particular band score, keeping university requirements or immigration requirements in mind. And this article outlines all that you need to know about the overall scoring calculator, individual module scoring calculator, and band descriptors for Speaking and Writing.      

Overall IELTS Band Score Calculator

Your overall band score is the average score of all four modules. Look at the table below as an example.

Listening  7
Reading  6
Writing  7.0
Speaking  6
Overall  6.5

 

IELTS Listening Score Calculator

Correct answers  Band Score
39-40  9
37-38  8.5
35-36  8
32-34  7.5
30-31  7.0
26-29  6.5
23-25  6
18-22  5.5
16-17 5
13-15 4.5
11-12  4

IELTS Reading (Academic)

Correct answers  Band Score
39-40  9
37-38  8.5
35-36  8
32-34  7.5
30-31  7.0
26-29  6.5
23-25  6
18-22  5.5
16-17 5
13-15 4.5
11-12  4

IELTS Reading (General Training) Score Calculator

Correct answers Band Score
40 9
39 8.5
37-38 8
36 7.5
34-35 7.0
32-33 6.5
30-31 6
27-29 5.5
23-265
19-224.5
15-18 4
12-143.5

Your marking will be done centering around the band score calculator above in terms of Listening and Reading. Conversely, Writing and Speaking marking would be done based on the assessment criteria set by Cambridge. Let’s have a glimpse at it.

IELTS Writing Assessment Criteria

Task Achievement (for Task 1)

What to do to fulfill this criterion? 

You have to 

  • Clearly and sufficiently provide key features (AC). 
  • Maintain a clear purpose with an appropriate and consistent tone (GT)
  • Present a clear summary and overview of the major trends, differences and stages (AC)
 

Task Response (for Task 2)

What to do to fulfill this criterion?
You have to

  • Fully address all the parts of the task.
  • Present a clear position throughout the response.
  • Present, support and extend main ideas.

Coherence and cohesion

What to do to fulfill this criterion?
You have to

  • Fully address all the parts of the task.
  • Present a clear position throughout the response.
  • Present, support and extend main ideas.

Lexical resource

In order to fulfill this criterion, you have to

  • Use a range of vocabulary with flexibility and precision
  • Use less common lexical items with awareness of style and collocation
  • Produce rare errors in spelling and/or word-formation.
  • Skillfully use uncommon lexical items.

Grammatical range and accuracy

You have to

  • Use a variety of sentence structures.
  • Produce frequent error-free sentences.
  • Make only very occasional errors or inappropriate.
  • Have good control over grammar and punctuation.

IELTS Speaking Assessment Criteria:

Fluency and coherence

For having full advantage of it, you have to.

  • Speak fluently with only occasional repetition or self-correction; content-related hesitation may occur and rarely to search for language. 
  • Use a range of connectives and discourse markers.  

Lexical resource

You have to 

  • Use vocabulary resources flexibly to discuss a variety of topics. 
  • Use some less common and idiomatic vocabulary and show some awareness of style and collocation. 
  • Use paraphrasing effectively. 
 

Grammatical range and accuracy

You have to 

  • Use a range of complex structures with some flexibility. 
  • Frequently produce error-free sentences. 

Pronunciation

You have to 

  • Use a wide range of pronunciation features
  • Sustain flexible use of features, with only occasional lapses.
  • Have the minimal effect of the mother language and thus easy to understand throughout.

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